I freely admit that, being a part of the caustic critic craze of the late-2000s/early-2010s, I helped contribute to a culture that only embraces surface-level, unthinking criticism and angry, bitter, hateful reactions to creators. It's shameful to me since you can draw a line...
...from that kind of attitude to the toxic, bitter, hateful assholes that hurl death threats and abuse at actors, writers, directors, etc. It's one of the many reasons I've tried to be more thoughtful in my critiques and desperately reinforce when appropriate to not attack...
...creators, why even in the new theme song (the one that premiered in the 600th episode and will likely become the full-time theme in the new year when I make the annual changeup to the theme) I don't namedrop awful creators anymore. Hell, even Liefeld - who just in the...
...last few days was a dick about another creator working on New Mutants and that he wouldn't "come back to save it (sure, Rob) - doesn't deserve to get that kind of treatment.
But the idea that just because the creators weren't deliberately trying to be harmful I shouldn't...
...be angry at their awful, AWFUL work? No. There's nothing wrong with anger. Anger motivates and gets things done. Outrage is not inherently bad. And harmful stereotypes being reinforced in a heavily-promoted book? Yeah, no. I'm going to be pissed and call out that shittiness...
...just as much as I'd expect people to do that to me... AND THEY HAVE. Even in the review this is referencing, people wanted some clarification about a few points I had made because they felt I wasn't expressing it properly. The work was bad and I am going to say it was bad...
...and try to use my platform for good to not let more people grow into shitty, toxic, entitled people by specifically saying "Don't do that, it's wrong." There is a difference between angry critique and friggin' death threats, for God's sakes.
And I really, REALLY resent being compared to the kind of people who DO farm for hate-clicks and anger viewing, especially when I *JUST* released an episode talking about how much I love US-1 for how bonkers and fun it is.
So they decided to return again. Despite this person being a subscriber for four years, I am beginning to doubt that they actually watch my stuff.
Oh, by the by? The next two episodes? We have to skip the PSA comic to try to do what I want to do before the end of the month, so it's going to be a Patreon-sponsored episode talking about a comic tie-in to EMERGENCY!, a 70s show not really talked about anymore wherein I'll...
...briefly talk about evolving my opinions on the police because of initially being shaped by shows like Dragnet vs. the reality of the world, sooo probably not going to be my most viewed episode...
...And the other is an issue of Mr. T and the T-Force.
You know, the series whose second issue I once called the greatest comic ever produced.
Just got to keep farming those hate clicks, guys.
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If you hadn't heard - apparently the site itself now just redirects to their Youtube page and doesn't exist as its own site anymore (apparently this happened a couple weeks ago and nobody noticed until now). So you know what actually gets to me now that Channel Awesome, as a...
...website, is gone? It's the final erasure of us as a group - of being MORE than just Doug's stuff.
Oh, sure, we stopped BEING together back in 2018. We did our own things, made our own big crossover project without them (check out A Voice From the Dark!), and went our own...
...ways. But something I noticed whenever I saw someone talking about Doug's more modern stuff - showed footage of their studio and the like - it was always decorated with JUST NC stuff, all their big clipless reviews and big stuff that had nothing to do with the rest of us...
Alrighty, begun writing the Dino Fury review, thread here full of jokes and reactions! NO SPOILERS, NO HINTINGS. I HAVEN'T WATCHED IT YET AND WANT TO BE SURPRISED (even though some stuff has been spoiled already).
This series is already trying to be topical and modern with a Buzzfeed-esque news and video office for the pink ranger to work at, but then she pulls out an actual physical map in the forest.
After 14 years... I have finally gotten a copyright strike - not a contentID, mind you, full-on STRIKE - for a video about comics.
And yes, it's entirely possible for that to happen - images are copyrighted just like anything else...
...and it was always on the table that a video could get claimed. It's just UNLIKELY to happen because, well, nobody gives a crap about comics - especially old ones.
So now you're asking - who's the lucky one responsible that I pissed off? Marvel? DC? Some indy publisher...
...that put out a black and white comic from the 80s and is now pissed that people remember it existed?
The answer is none of them.
In what should not be a surprise given the last couple years for what happened to @TotallyNotMark and @SuedeBlade... it's a manga.
PRODUCER OF SILENT HILL: ASCENSION - "Yes. I am totally genuine. I am not reading a teleprompter at all. This is a great new project. There is no ruh-set button. I'm pretty sure that's how you pronounce reset. Anyway, this is really cool. No, I'm not saying what this is."
"But your choices affect the canon. There is no going back. The choices of the streaming audience. I sure do like the communal feeling of watching horror movies in a theater. No, I'm still not telling you what this actually is, but it's totally interactive."
IGN POLL ON STREAM: "Are you excited about the idea for Silent Hill: Ascension."
So it looks like some people are going back through my timeline to right after JewWario committed suicide to like and retweet the tweets I and others made expressing sorrow and sadness over it. If I had to guess why they're doing this, it's an attempt at a "GOTCHA!" they can...
...call upon, because some really shitty people believe that I and others knew about him grooming young women.
We did not.
We didn't know until 2018, when CA accidentally let it slip in their poor attempts to respond to the Not So Awesome document.
As far as we knew in 2014, a friend of ours had committed suicide and we were just heartbroken by it and trying to make sense of it. Obviously things would have been different if we had known then what we know now.
Something I find curious about the defense of transphobic comedy is the constant repetitions of "It's just a joke!" "They're a comedian!" "Expect people to laugh at a comedy show!" etc., etc. is that it seems to suggest that bad or shitty jokes don't exist; that all comedy...
...is inherently equal and worthwhile. That there is no such thing as dated humor or unfunny jokes or, indeed, racist/homophobic/transphobic/etc. jokes.
I wonder how many of these people see someone disparage, say, "Meet the Spartans" or some racist 40s comedy and go "IT'S JUST JOKES. WHY DO YOU HATE THE JOKE MOVIE?!"